Comic books are worse than soap operas, but people keep farking that chicken.

They received major publicity when they killed off Superman in the early 90s, but since they've done that they can't do anything to top it.

The problem with publicity stunts in comics is that it's all been done before. There's such a huge back library and so many characters that there's very little new left to do, especially with characters that have been around for decades.

I like the breathless excitement they spew. "OMG you aren't even going to believe this, we're totally serious, this is going to change EVERYTHING OMG I can't believe the bosses are letting us do this OMG!"

2 months ago it was "The Trial of Jean Grey 1 of 6" it ended with "To be continued in X-Men"I don't read X-Men! I'm not GOING to read X-Men!

Now last month I get my Guardians. It's "The Trial of Jean Grey 4 of 6" And I have ZERO idea what is going on.

From talking to comic people, this has been happening forever in comics. But it's the first time it's happened to me since I started reading them.

So instead of making more money off me, forcing me to buy a new book, they're going to LOSE my business.

The fact that I'm expected to pay 3.99 a book for nonsensical, unoriginal plots with often shiatty artwork pushed me out of the comics biz for the most part. Now, I just wait for TPBs if they have any decent critical acclaim, and comics for the kids, which, ironically, are often superior to much of what's on the shelf.

I liked wolvie back in the claremont days, when his claws were implanted by the weapon x program (the official handbook of the marvel universe mini series even had a half assed schematic of the implants in the weapons index). Days when green goblin (osborne sr.) Stayed dead, villains like sabertooth would kick wolvies butt half the time, and the xmen were worried about the marauders and morlocks.

2 months ago it was "The Trial of Jean Grey 1 of 6" it ended with "To be continued in X-Men"I don't read X-Men! I'm not GOING to read X-Men!

Now last month I get my Guardians. It's "The Trial of Jean Grey 4 of 6" And I have ZERO idea what is going on.

From talking to comic people, this has been happening forever in comics. But it's the first time it's happened to me since I started reading them.

So instead of making more money off me, forcing me to buy a new book, they're going to LOSE my business.

It's shiat like this which has prevented me from getting in to comics. I tried the Guardians of the Galaxy book last month, because the trailer was awesome and my friends thought it was a great comic.

Turns out I bought a book from the 90s. It was some Fantastic 4 segue outro thing, that even though it was 'the first issue' was so convoluted and confusing I literally couldn't figure out what was going on. It was 90% 'last time in book X!' throwbacks.

That shiat? That shiat keeps me from reading comics. I'll admit to reading manga. I enjoy a contained, singular, story, that doesn't have 20-60 years of 'back story' attached, and doesn't have 40000 different comic books they need to feed into the cycle to get people to read. It's just a singular story, by one author not a committee, with a granular start and finish.

I would read American comic books in a heartbeat if they could promise anything like that. Especially if I could get a Shonen Jump style anthology book every month for 10-15$ delivered, rather than this bullshiat of 3$ per book, 1-4 times a month, oh and you need to read 40 books for the whole story, oh and we're just going to end up right back where we started anyway because we have to keep a stasis point for because reasons.

Comic books are worse than soap operas, but people keep farking that chicken.

They received major publicity when they killed off Superman in the early 90s, but since they've done that they can't do anything to top it.

The problem with publicity stunts in comics is that it's all been done before. There's such a huge back library and so many characters that there's very little new left to do, especially with characters that have been around for decades.

They managed to get pretty good national press when Captain America died. Even then though, it was nowhere near the level that Superman had. The problem is that once you get away from Superman and Batman, the general public doesn't really give a crap about a superhero dying. It also helped that Superman died during the height of the "these comics will be my retirement fund" collector boom. It would be impossible to replicate both the cultural significance of Superman as well as the market bubble.

Silvyrbug:I liked wolvie back in the claremont days, when his claws were implanted by the weapon x program (the official handbook of the marvel universe mini series even had a half assed schematic of the implants in the weapons index). Days when green goblin (osborne sr.) Stayed dead, villains like sabertooth would kick wolvies butt half the time, and the xmen were worried about the marauders and morlocks.

why not the Wolverine that was an animal turned human by The High Evolutionary?

2 months ago it was "The Trial of Jean Grey 1 of 6" it ended with "To be continued in X-Men"I don't read X-Men! I'm not GOING to read X-Men!

Now last month I get my Guardians. It's "The Trial of Jean Grey 4 of 6" And I have ZERO idea what is going on.

From talking to comic people, this has been happening forever in comics. But it's the first time it's happened to me since I started reading them.

So instead of making more money off me, forcing me to buy a new book, they're going to LOSE my business.

I've been picking my comics up in the gathered graphic novel format. They'll bundle the whatever-ones-are-related-storyline comics into the one book.Gotta recommend them that way, tbh, unless you're a collector/reseller.

dumbobruni:Silvyrbug: I liked wolvie back in the claremont days, when his claws were implanted by the weapon x program (the official handbook of the marvel universe mini series even had a half assed schematic of the implants in the weapons index). Days when green goblin (osborne sr.) Stayed dead, villains like sabertooth would kick wolvies butt half the time, and the xmen were worried about the marauders and morlocks.

why not the Wolverine that was an animal turned human by The High Evolutionary?

feickus:Ishkur: The only people who stay dead are Uncle Ben and Bruce Wayne's parents.

Marvel isn't going to kill their cash cow. He'll come back.

Came here to say the same thing. Fark! DC brought Jason Todd back.

On the under the red hood DVD, one of the interviews about his death had one of the writers saying what an amazing move it was to kill him, and (I think the interview was during his long deaths period) he said "and it would be a really cheap stunt to bring him back.

Well until the death of superman, MOSTLY people stayed dead, and it was a big deal when they didn't (phoenix/jean grey). Most of the time, if they came back they were either supernatural or a "we never checked the body, but no one could survive THAT or Doombot/clone"